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3-3-11 Seasoned with Salt



Col 4:6
“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” NIV

In my Bible Dictionary it tells me much about salt, some things we know, that it was a preservative, that it was a condiment, that we are called the salt of the earth, that it was used in offerings on the altar.  None of these seem to fit with this verse, but, something else it tells me does. It says “As one of the most essential articles of diet, salt symbolized hospitality; as antiseptic, durability, fidelity and purity. Hence the expression covenant of salt. As betokening an indissoluble alliance between friends, and again the expression ‘salted with the salt of the palace’; not necessarily meaning that they had maintenance from the palace, but that they were bound by sacred obligations of fidelity to the king. So in present day, ‘to eat bread and salt together’ is an expression for a league of mutual amity.” Bible Dictionary, Teacher’s Edition, Wm. Smith LLD © 1884 Porter & Coates

I will gather from that that to season our conversation with salt is to be pure in our talk and to be friendly, but, also since salt is a preservative, to preserve the purity of the gospel as brought to them by Epaphras (v. 1:7) “a faithful minister”. Paul says in 1:28 that “We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.” This leads me to the conclusion that seasoning our conversation with salt includes God’s wisdom as well, which would be necessary to “know how to answer everyone”.

In all things, seek God’s wisdom.

Melissa Going

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